Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 8, Number 4, 1 April 1991 — City Parks names 1991 Lei Oueen, Hawaiian song contest winners [ARTICLE]

City Parks names 1991 Lei Oueen, Hawaiian song contest winners

The City and County Department of Parks and Recreation has announced the selection of the 1991 Lei Court for its annual Lei Day festivities. Through a very lengthy process of scoring the candidates in the area of lei-making skills, the art of hula, Hawaiian language ability, and poise and car age, the judges chose Ipolani Vaughan as Lei Q en, 1991. She will be accompanied in her appearances by her lovely princesses, Noelani Kaleopa'a and Lahilahi Jingao. The judges were: lei-making — Brian Choy; hula — Hoakalei Kamau'u; language — Malia Craver; poise and carriage — Lei Collins. Queen Ipolani will be invested at the Lei Day Festival program on May 1 at 11 a.m. She will be honored with songs and hula during a one-hour program preceding the cutting of the lei at the entrance to the lei contest exhibits and prize-winning leis at the Queen Kapi'olani Park and Bandstand. The public is invited to the free day-long program. The schedule is: 7:30 a.m. - Lei contest entries brought in 9 a.m. - Ho'olaule'a exhibits on display 10 a.m. - Royal Hawaiian Band concert 11 a.m. - Lei Queen investiture program 12 noon - Lei contest exhibit opens to the public 12:30-5:30 p.m. - Afternoon program of halau hula and performers 3:30 p.m. - Youth lei contest 6 p.m. Lei exhibits close For more information eall the Hawaiian Section Staff at 266-7655.

Here are the final results of the 42nd Annual Hawaiian Song Composing Contest sponsored by the Honolulu City and County Department of Parks and Recreation Hawaiian Section, as made on March 10. Congratulations to the winners! Hawaiian language division: • First plaee song: " 'Oli'oli," by composer Hau'oli Akaka of Kane'ohe, O'ahu. • Second plaee song: "Na 'Ala O Kaua'i," by composer Kaiponohea Hale of Auwaiolimu, O'ahu. • Third plaee song: "Na Kupuna O Ko'olau,"by composer Leina'ala Alesna of Kane'ohe, O'ahu. • Fourth plaee song: "Ka Makika Li'i," by composers Victor Rittenband and Nancy Gustafsson, of Waikiki, O'ahu. Hapa-Hawaiian division: • First plaee song: "Moanalua," by composer Miles Takaki of Kennewiek, Washington. Takaki found out about the contest through the Ka Wai Ola O OHA newspaper that he receives in Washington State. There is a very active Hawaiian community there. • Second plaee song: "Hawai'i Is Calling Me," by composer Tau Moe of Hau'ula, O'ahu. • Third plaee song: "Liliko'i Lady," by composer Charlene Gillis-Dyer of Kilauea, Kaua'i. • Fourth plaee song: "Manapua Man," by composers Kitty Cole and Jimmy Rodgers of San Francisco, California.